News Source: Androscoggin News
| about 1 year ago
Medical card issue dominates Budget debate Thursday, 23 October 2008 12:28 Debate on last week's Budget has resumed in the Dáil following the Governement's seven vote win on medical cards last night. This morning, opposition deputies pressed the...
News Source: Androscoggin News
| about 1 year ago
Eamon Gilmore has questioned whether the Government is legally entitled to remove the medical card from 20,000 pensioners. While the revisions announced on Tuesday will allow 95% of the over-70s to retain their cards, the remaining 5% will lose them...
News Source: Androscoggin News
| about 1 year ago
However, she declined to answer repeated questions in the Dáil about whether the Minister for Health, Mary Harney, could change income threshold limits for medical card entitlement for the over-70s, “at the stroke of a pen”, once current...